Inside the cathedral, the four "good teammates" sat around a round table. Wood spoke first.
"Byakuya, you've already obtained four Origin Stones?"
"Yes."
"I want to confirm a few things."
Su Xiao raised his left hand, clad in the Black King's armguard. Dark energy surged over his arm, and a pitch-black crystal slowly gathered in his palm before reverting into an Origin Stone.
He could do this because he had discovered that rather than absorbing the Origin Stones, the Black King's armguard had embedded them in a special way.
If the Origin Stones had truly been absorbed, the five stones would never have survived through so many generations of Chosen Ones. Even if each proof item had absorbed only half a stone, there still would not have been enough to go around.
Wood caught the Origin Stone Su Xiao tossed over, then took out several ancient objects: a strangely shaped scale, a one-inch mirror, and a balance dragged by a tiny skeleton.
"With the corresponding special energy, that large Star Core Stone can significantly enhance a talent."
Su Xiao spoke. Wood, who had been appraising the Origin Stone, stopped moving. Zarias beside him also looked toward the Star Core Stone on the "sacrificial altar."
"Similar to talent awakening?"
Zarias naturally knew that talents could awaken. Although his home, the Fallen Star, was not as direct as the Paradise faction regarding talent awakening, it still had methods to awaken talents, likewise divided into first and second awakenings.
"No. This is more like an increase in quantity."
Su Xiao tapped the teacup before him. Crystal spread upward from its rim, increasing the cup's capacity by nearly a third.
The description was so simple and direct that Wood and Zarias immediately understood the degree of enhancement it represented.
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